5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
6:57 a.m.
Colin Fee wrote:
In my media server at home, running Ubuntu 10.04 LTE server edition, I'm having trouble ejecting/opening the DVD tray when the machine is operating under the OS's control.
Most optical drives can be locked by the OS (speaking ATAPI). This is to prevent you from ejecting it while it is in use (i.e. mounted). If you mount/umount the CD manually, it should be locked only when mounted, and umounting will implicitly unlock it. If you have some fancy GUI thing that mounts on demand, I would *expect* it to leave the drive unlockd unless you were actively accessing files on it, but I have no idea about current GUI internals.